Stories from Tuesday, March 14, 2017

The Heritage Preservation Society of Putnam County on Thursday, March 16 at 6 p.m. will hold its annual meeting at the Putnam County Museum. The event is free and the public is encouraged to attend. The featured speaker will be Ronald V. Morris, professor of history at Ball State University. His subject will be “Mobile Experiences and Community History.”...

Daniel Renee Evans, 37, of Gary, passed away on Saturday, March 11, 2017. Born July 27, 1979, he was the son of Alfred and Linda (Flynn) Evans. Danny had worked most recently in construction. He is survived by a son, Daniel A. Lawrence; and siblings James Moore (Maria), Joe Zaborski (Lisa), Patrick Zaborski, Paula Pinkston and Julia Peters (Tim)...

A 45-year-old Greencastle woman, charged with taking more than $80,000 in Madison Township Volunteer Fire Department funds for personal use, made her initial appearance in court Monday afternoon. Tammy Dickerson, the former Madison Township VFD treasurer, appeared before Putnam Superior Court Judge Denny Bridges in a brief hearing in which he entered a not-guilty plea on her behalf...

Barbara Jane Etcheson, 87, formerly of Roachdale, passed away Tuesday, March 13, 2017 in Brownsburg. Born July 27, 1929 she was the daughter of the late Dwight and Naomi Carson. A 1947 graduate of Roachdale High School, she was a member of the Roachdale Christian Church...

The North Putnam seventh grade travel volleyball team went undefeated in the Volleydigs 7th/8th grade Division A Gold Bracket at Danville High School on March 5, defeating Tri-West in the championship match. After trailing 14-9 in the decisive set, Brie Miller pulled off an exciting victory with seven straight service points for the 16-14 win.

GREENFIELD – When the final buzzer sounded on Saturday to end the Cloverdale-Northeastern boys’ basketball regional game, so ended the record-setting high school career of Cooper Neese. Neese and his teammates provided a season full of memorable moments to the large crowd of Clover fans who followed them everywhere. Saturday’s Cloverdale crowd at a location 90 miles away was even larger than one at the sectional finals last week just a few miles up the road...

The generosity of Greencastle’s York Chevrolet Buick GMC will provide DePauw University with a new Safe Ride vehicle. York’s donation of a 2016 Chevrolet Express 12-passenger van will allow DePauw to retire the current Safe Ride van, which has been in service for a decade...

Warm weather is arriving. Youth will be outside more where physical injury would be more likely to occur where safety precautions and rules have not been established. Whether flowing grain, riding on a tractor draw bar or otherwise insecurely, using equipment improperly or extracting stuck equipment inappropriately, these are a few ways for youth to become in deep trouble as they play, live and work around the farm experiencing situations that urban counterparts do not experience...

PUTNAMVILLE — Troopers from the Indiana State Police Post at Putnamville responded to a pair of recent fires. At approximately 12:30 a.m. Monday, Troopers James Crisp and Kyle Hall responded to a grass fire in the median of eastbound Interstate 70 near the 48-mile marker in eastern Putnam County, seven miles east of Cloverdale...

Brick Chapel area resident Dale Cantonwine, 69, is in need of a kidney transplant and Putnam County residents can help. Persons interested in being a kidney donor and helping Cantonwine extend his life can call 317-948-4505 to talk with the medical staff and possibly schedule some tests to see if they qualify...

The March Living with Low Vision meeting is set for 10-11 a.m. Tuesday, March 21 at Putnam County Comprehensive Services, 630 Tennessee St., Greencastle. The speaker will be Danny Wayne from the WILL Center, speaking about the second installment on lighting...

The North Putnam school board has moved its regularly-scheduled public session from Thursday, March 16 to Wednesday, March 15, with the time and location remaining the same. The meeting is set to take place with the auditorium at North Putnam High School (8869 N. County Road 250 East) at 7 p.m. on the aforementioned date...

County Jail Eighteen people were booked in the Putnam County Jail recently. Monday • At 6:35 p.m. Jessica Ann (Kenworthy) Bushong, 32, Fillmore, was lodged at the jail for criminal trespass. • At 4:10 p.m. Robert Wayne Barnett, 56, Greencastle, was taken into custody for parole violation...

Don’t be fooled by the headline. The water at Greencastle High School is fine to drink, but GHS’s production of Woody Allen’s hilarious comedy titled “Don’t Drink the Water” (staged Friday and Saturday, March 17-18 at 7:30 p.m.) will leave you thirsty for more...

By now, nearly everyone with a cellphone has experienced a strange number ringing in from a distant location. Is it a coworker? A telemarketer? A long-lost friend? Chances are, the answer is “no.” With so many cases of telephone scam and fraud reported in 2016, which typically target senior citizens and the elderly, awareness of such criminal activities has become paramount and certain of Greencastle’s citizens have taken initiative to educate those most vulnerable...